Loving Bad Beats
Bad beats have got to be one of the toughest elements of poker to learn to handle, respect and ultimately love. Beginners have a hard to handling them and can get mentally destroyed if not given the right information about them. For pros, it is all in a day’s work, they expect to see them.
If you happen to have your opponent all in and have top pair over their second pair, a runner runner two pair, flush, straight, or trips will send you exiting the tournament or exiting the table fuming due to the unfortunate fate of the cards. But this is actually a good thing, most times you would have taken out the chips and advanced one more spot up the rankings or have found some new chips in front of you.
The call or push from your opposition was a clear mistake or misread from your opposition, and you played the hand 100% correctly. But the subsequent cards and chips pushed to your opponent makes them think that they are a good player, or some promising pro. They are more than likely to try it again in their next tournament or maybe even the next hand. Make sure you hunt down the bad player whenever they might play a tournament again, or have some more money to reload to take advantage of the player. Make sure you give that bad player a good thumbs up to congratulate him for his ‘strong and courageous’ play.
Bad beats are what a good player looks for to dish to themselves. They know that they want to receive more bad beats to signal their continual good play. What they are worried about, however, is when they start dishing out too many bad beats to their opposition.
